Word: sermonizer
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...they take their seats, passengers will find their names and welcome aboard already on their screens. News and weather data will scroll past as they settle in, followed by the ineluctable buckle-up-for-safety sermon. Next will come a menu with instructions (in four languages) on how to swipe any credit card through the electronic reader on the handset to pay the costs of a phone call...
...standing, McCarthy argued, especially in politics, where any fool can speak and every fool does. If record and reputation defy one's rhetoric, even the right talk fails the heft test. The same standard applies to the current Vice President. It is not that Dan Quayle's family-values sermon missed the mark; much of what he said was right. It is that Quayle represents an Administration that has only rarely supported the programs that actually promote strong families -- everything from child care and parental leave to infant nutrition, Head Start, apprenticeship training, gun control and -- well, the list...
...first choice Zaks made for Guys and Dolls was to eliminate any hint of urban terror, indeed of realism. "I wanted the feeling of something ecstatic, like religion -- not listening to a sermon, but when you're singing and emoting and entering into a happy waking dream. The world these characters inhabit has been declawed." That led to a deliberately overstated, cartoonish style. For crap-game organizer Nathan Detroit, who was gruff and menacing as played by Bob Hoskins in London, Zaks cast Nathan Lane, a patently harmless hyperkinetic who comes on as a blend of Jackie Gleason and Bugs...
...Sunday morning during mass, the priest began a sermon about marrying out of the faith and how it was counter to God's word. Well, my grandfather said he always knew baloney when he heard it and he knew who this particular baloney was aimed...
...stood up in the middle of the sermon, put on his hat (a particularly Catholic sign of disrespect) and walked out. it was a foolhardy act of him the wonderful person that...